HTML5 Campaign

[Erik Beugelaar]

I understand the call to pledge but you can also consider the fact we have 1200 LinkedIn members connected in the LiveCode membergroup. 
If the need to get HTML5 is so high, I cant explain why lets say an investnent of $200 or more is too much. It will be an Open Source project too, right? So it doesnt have to be a stopper for years if this campain will fail. If the project has the interest of open source co-developers, they will step into this journey. That was one of the main reasons RunRev made LiveCode Open Source to move forward. It would be interesting to know how many contributed  developers are currently involved in the ongoing process of LiveCode. 
My fear is that the ones who have already pledged before are cautious to invest again because the Next Generation has just started to get attention and will be a must to get LiveCode widely accepted as an Android killer platform which is leading platform nowadays. At the moment. LiveCode is moving forward into the top 10 of the leading mobile cross-platform tools. the funding of 395k bucks will be peanuts. I dont want to offend anybody but thats what I think. First put all effort in a fast engine with little overhead using unicode and offer native control implementation on iOS and Android using widgets/themes.


 Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:

>On 7/21/2014 2:03 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote:
>> Maybe I misunderstanding the HTML5 Campaign...?
>
>In Kickstarter style crowdfunding, a goal is say to raise X amount of
>money in Y days. Typically ff the goal of X dollars is not met in Y
>days, all pledges are not collected. The project is not funded at all.
>
>In RunRev's HTML5 campaign, the target amount needs to be raised in the
>specified time period (end of this month). If not, it is likely that the
>project will not move forward at all at this time. A web deployment
>option for LiveCode will be postponed until a at least a couple YEARS
>down the line.
>
>So pledge what you can, now.
>
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